Recently, the Microsoft .NET development support page showed that Microsoft will stop supporting .NET 5 on May 8, 2022, and .NET 5 will be officially released on November 10, 2020. The current latest patch version is 5.0.12, and the release time is November 8, 2021.
Moreover, Microsoft said it will provide developers with a period of 6 months before May 2022 as the transition period from .NET 5 to the new version. NET. The chart also indicates that the latest .NET 6 will provide a long-term support version (LTS, Long Term Support), and the chart shows that the end of support for .NET 6 is November 8, 2024.
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At the same time, Microsoft also released a release schedule for each version of .NET on the website. The picture shows that .NET 7 will be launched in November 2022, and .NET 8 will be launched in November 2023.
Furthermore, Microsoft said that future versions of .NET and .NET Core will always provide long-term support versions, and each version can receive three-year patch updates and free support.
